Thanks, Ward. I have made an appointment at the genius bar Friday. After it couldn't read the iMac or the Mini either, I tried setting it up without the other computers. The next step is choosing a wireless network. This resulted in a spinning beachball that still hasn't quit. I give up. See you Friday.
On 12/5/07, Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote: > > Alex, > > I would call Apple technical support. > > > http://www.apple.com/support/contact/ > > > You may also bring both laptops to the Genius Bar and have them > troubleshoot the problem for free. You will need to make a reservation > first. > > > http://concierge.apple.com/store/R264 > > > Ward Oldham > > > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Alex Whitman wrote: > > Yep, I did that. It's the second step after turning the MacBook on for the > very first time and following the set up instructions. It just doesn't > recognize anything on the iBook. I'm going to try making an old G4 iMac the > target and if that doesn't work I will call Apple tomorrow. > > I know I can set it up without transferring my settings but this is a > major purchase and it should work as advertised. > > > Alex > > On 12/5/07, Ed Wiser <wiserone1 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You need to make one the "target" and the other the "source." Open > > Migration Assistant on the MacBook. Follow instructions. Start the source > > disk?after connecting Fire Wire with the "T" key held down. > > > > > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Alex Whitman wrote: > > > > I am trying to set up my new (refurbished) MacBook (with 10.5), and I > > want to copy everything over from my G4 iBook (running 10.4.11) but > > there is a glitch. I shut down the iBook, connected the firewire cable to > > both machines, and restarted the iBook holding down the T key. The big > > firewire symbol appears on the iBook screen, but the MacBook gives this > > error message: > > > > "There are no versions of Mac OS X available on your old Mac. > > You can only transfer information from a Mac that has OS X installed. > > Click Continue to keep trying, or click Cancel to stop the > > transferring." > > > > > > Do they really mean it has to be the same version of OS X? > > > > > > The cable worked a few months ago to transfer files between a G4 iMac > > and an intel Mini and hasn't been abused since then. I know the iBook is > > working as I am writing this message on it. Any ideas will be most > > gratefully appreciated. > > > > > > Alex Whitman > > _______________________________________________ > > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > > be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > > be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071205/f27064e5/attachment.html
